‘There Will Be A Holiday!’

Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre has announced plans for a holiday in honor of Julien Alfred’s historic gold medal win in the women’s 100m at the Olympic Games in Paris on Saturday. Pierre announced the plan during a SportsMax interview when asked whether there would be a national holiday. “Everybody is asking me that. All I can say to them is there will be a holiday,” the Saint Lucia Prime Minister stated. However, he gave no further details. On Saturday, Pierre was among an ecstatic crowd in Castries that watched on a big screen as Alfred ran a national record 10.72 seconds for the gold medal on the purple tracks of the Stade de France. “We should call today Julien Alfred Day,” he told reporters at the event, suggesting he could have declared a holiday if it were not a Saturday. Later,  during the SportsMax interview, Pierre praised the 23-year-old athlete from Ciceron in Castries as a model that young people in Saint Lucia and the rest of the region could imitate. He described Julien Alfred as a consummate, disciplined individual. “While we rejoice, I want to send out a message to all the young people in the entire region,...